Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

The Kerry campaign was a difficult one to be involved with, it is a real juggling act to set the tone and pace of these things accurately.

My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.